Re: [Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-17 Thread Martin Costabel
David R.Morrison wrote: As mentioned on the new preparing for 10.5 page on the fink wiki, echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. Instead of echo -n string one should now write /bin/echo

Re: [Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-17 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Dec 17, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: David R.Morrison wrote: As mentioned on the new preparing for 10.5 page on the fink wiki, echo -n is now deprecated in fink. I have edited the vast majority of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version. Instead of

[Fink-devel] install svn oddity

2006-12-17 Thread Jack Howarth
Has anyone else run into this when trying to install the svn fink package under a clean install of fink 10.4 unstable. I find that the build process fails at this point... Writing control file... dpkg-deb -b root-apr-common-0.9.12-11 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs

Re: [Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-17 Thread Matthew Sachs
On Dec 17, 2006, at 08:10, Peter O'Gorman wrote: So you can probably assume that if there are differences between the UNIX03 spec and bsd, then Apple will probably go with UNIX03. If the shell is invoked as /bin/sh, it will be in standards- compliant sh mode, and echo won't interpret -n. If

Re: [Fink-devel] install svn oddity

2006-12-17 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Also, what is up with all the instances of... tar: -: file name read contains nul character There is a bug in the way that the latest tar interacts with dpkg; this is harmless, but I believe that a fix (for dpkg) is on the way. -- Dave

[Fink-devel] gnucash-1.8.12-11

2006-12-17 Thread Karine BRETECHER
-- Package manager version: 0.26.0 Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync i386 Mac OS X version: 10.4.8 Xcode version: 2.2.1 gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) make version: 3.80 Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander

Re: [Fink-devel] gnucash-1.8.12-11

2006-12-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 12/17/06, Karine BRETECHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Package manager version: 0.26.0 Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync i386 Mac OS X version: 10.4.8 Xcode version: 2.2.1 gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250) make version: 3.80 Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander

Re: [Fink-devel] echo -n now deprecated

2006-12-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean-François Mertens wrote: I see coreutils is at version 6.7, vs 5.96 in fink. If the maintainer were willing to update, I would hope the need for the /bin/ to disappear ... ; there should be a way to write things 'portably' (at least